Canadian Music and Musicians 1940-2000

D. Geoffrey Bell

Canadian Music and Musicians 1940-2000 This ever-expanding list covers a range of music as vast as our country! It contains the names of musicians, composers and musical groups who have released recordings of their music or have received radio airplay between 1940-2000. Please don't be offended if I've omitted your favorite artist or band. Feel free to send names that should be added, corrections and URLS if you have them.

Je desire les noms des artistes francophone aussi s'il vous plait

Categories:
Contemporary Folk/Pop/Country | Children's Performers | Jazz/Blues,World Music | Classical Composers | Classical Performers

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Contemporary Folk, Pop, Country, etc. (1940-2000)

A Foot in Cold Water
Susan Aglukark
Ancient Cultures (Traditional Chilean and Folk blend)
April Wine
Bryan Adams (Juno winner)
Jann Arden (Calgary's sensational success!)
Randy Bachman (now composing film scores!)
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Barenaked Ladies
Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts
The Barra MacNeils (Traditional Celtic duo)
Beau Domage (French-Canadian Folk and Pop blend)
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Blue Rodeo (Juno winner)
Robert Charlebois
Chilliwack
Tom Cochrane
Bruce Cockburn (Folk and Pop blend)
Leonard Cohen (Juno winner)
The Cold Club (from Calgary!)
Cowboy Junkies
Crowbar
Crash Test Dummies
Burton Cummings
Dick Damron
Celine Dion (Juno winner)
Thomas Donovan
Downchild Blues Band
Dream Warriors (Canadian Rap group)
Earthquake Pills (Calgary band - CD released in1998)
Edward Bear
Shirley Eikhard
Beverley Elliot
Tim Feehan (Edmonton composer/performer)
Figgy Duff
Five-Man Electrical Band
David Foster
George Fox (Alberta performer - Juno winner)
Lennie Gallant
Glass Tiger
Great Big Sea
Great Western Orchestra (Turner Valley/Edmonton)
Group Therapy
Guess Who
Hagood Hardy
Harmonium (French-Canadian Folk and Pop blend)
Hart Rouge (French-Canadian Folk)
Corey Hart
Ronnie Hawkins
Jeff Healey Band
Dan Hill
Holly Cole Trio
Honeymoon Suite
Tommy Hunter
Hutton Family
Irish Rovers
Terry Jacks
Colin James (Juno winner)
Kashtin ( Folk, Rock, traditional Innu blend)
James Keelaghan (Calgary Folk composer/performer)
Kilgore Trout(Calgary Folk band)
Andy Kim
Chantal Kreviazuk
k.d. lang (Alberta performer)
Daniel Lanois
Lemonjade (Calgary band - CD "Birth EP")
Les Chauffeurs a pieds
Gordon Lightfoot (Folk and Country blend)
Lighthouse
Loverboy
Luba
Ashley MacIsaac
Rita MacNeil (Juno winner)
Mad Pudding
Maestro Fresh-Wes (Juno winner)
Martha and the Muffins
Mashmakhan
John McDermott
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Loreena McKennitt (Multiple awards and CDs!)
Catherine McKinnon
Sarah McLachlan
Murray McLauchlan
Sue Medley (Juno winner)
Men Without Hats
Don Messer
Alannah Miles
Frank Mills
Joni Mitchell (Folk, Pop and Jazz genres. Multiple awards and CDs!)
Kim Mitchell
Mitsou
Moist
Alanis Morissette
Motherlode
Moxy Fruvous
Anne Murray
Alannah Myles
Randy Newman (composing film scores)
Ocean
Parachute Club
Payolas
Plasterscene Replicas (Toronto 1983-1989, released 2 records and 2 videos; regular airplay on CFNY, Q107 and MuchMusic)
Poppy Family
Powder Blues Band
Prairie Oyster (Juno winner)
The Rankin Family (Traditional Folk and Country blend)
Rawlins Cross
Rheostatics
Robbie Robertson (Folk,New Age & Canadian Aboriginal elements)
Roche Voisine
Garnet Rogers
Stan Rogers
Rough Trade
Rush (Juno winner)
Saga
Buffy Saint-Marie (Folk and Canadian Aboriginal blend)
Seanachie (Calgary Folk group with Celtic roots. Two CDs. )
Jane Siberry
Sky
Skylark
Sloan
Laura Smith
Snow
Spirit of the West
Stampeders
Steppenwolf
Stompin' Tom Connors
Sweeny Todd
The Band
The Bells
The Pursuit of Happiness
Ian Thomas
Tragically Hip Juno winner)
Dominic Triano
Trooper
Triumph
Ian Tyson
Sylvia Tyson
UHF(Folk and Pop blend)
Shari Ulrich(Folk and Pop blend)
Valdy (Folk)
Gino Vannelli
Rose Vaughn Trio (1990 CBC Maritimes song contest finalists)
Laura Vinson
Roch Voisine
Michelle Wright
Neil Young
Zappacosta

Children's Performers

Charlotte Diamond
Matt Maxwell (Tours Western Canadadian schools, teaches upbeat French songs. )
Eric Nagler
Fred Penner
Raffi
Sharon, Lois and Bram
Valdy
Chris and Ken Whitely

Jazz, Blues, World Music

Tommy Banks
Ed Bickert
Big Miller (Alberta performer)
Paul Bley
Rita Chiarelli
The Cold Club (Calgary)
Ron Collier
Lorraine Desmarais
Trudy Desmond
Brian Dickinson
Michael Donato
Jane Fair
Michael Farquharson
Maynard Ferguson
Five After Four
Hugh Fraser
Lee Gagnon
Amos Garret
Willy Girard (violin)
Lou Hooper (piano)
Paul Horn
Brian Hughes (guitars)
Don Johnston (Grammy Award winner, CD recorded in Calgary)
Oliver Jones (piano)
Moe Koffman
Diana Krall
Lorne Lofsky
Oscar Lopez 1997 Oscar Lopez 2000
Greg Lowe
Fraser MacPherson
Manteca
Maria Muldaur (remember "Midnight at the Oasis"?)
Pierre Nadeau
Phil Nimmons
John Nugent
Rob McConnell
Emile Mormand
Ted Moses
Ray Norris
Oscar Peterson
Trisha Pope
Lester Quitzau (Edmonton)
John Reid (Calgary composer/performer)
Billy Robinson (sax)
Karl Roth (Calgary performer)
Stan Samole
Roly Sandoval (Calgary guitarist - CD "Passion Sketches")
Paul Schaeffer
Joe Sealy
Roger Simard
Skywalk
Herb Spanier (trumpet)
Synthetic Earth
Dawn Thompson
Don Thompson
Dave Turner
Uzeb
Kenny Wheeler
Karen Young

Classical ("Serious" & not-so-serious) Composers

Murray Adaskin
Robert Aitken
Jean Anderson (CD-"Spinners of Starlight")
Louis Applebaum
Violet Archer (Edmonton) Published, CD-"Northern Arch"
Raynald Arseneault
Maya Badian
Gerald Bales (London, ON) CD, Published
Sergio Barrosa
Norma Beecroft
Allan Gordon Bell (Calgary)
D. Geoffrey Bell (Canning, Nova Scotia)
John Kim Bell (Canadian Native Arts Foundation)
Boris Berlin
Linda Bouchard
Remi Bouchard
Denys Bouliane (CD)
Alexander Brott
John Celona
Gustav Ciamaga
Michael Conway Baker (North Vancouver) Genie winner - film scores
Jean Coulthard (CD-"Musical Poems")
Clifford Crawley (Published choral music)
Omar Daniel (Toronto)
Quenten Doolittle (Calgary)
David Duke (Vancouver)
David Eagle (Calgary)
Sophie Eckhardt-Grammate
Leonard Enns (Waterloo) Published
John Estacio (Edmonton) CD
Jean Ethridge (Falkland, BC)
Robert Fleming
Malcolm Forsyth
Harry Freedman
Mary Gardiner (CD-"Spinners of Starlight")
Tony Genge (Nova Scotia)
Richard Gibson (Moncton)
Srul Irving Glick
Stewart Grant
Dr. Bengt Hambraeus
Ron Hannah (Edmonton) CD, Published
Chris Harman (Winner of 1990 CBC Competition for Young Composers) CD
Peter Hatch (Waterloo)
Ruth Watson Henderson
Jacques Hetu
Jim Hiscott
Alice Ho
Laura Hoffman
Derek Holman
Melissa Hui
Dr. Otto Joachim
Dr. Richard Johnston (Calgary) Published, founding member of Prairie Branch of Canadian Music Centre, author of "Zoltan Kodaly in North America", "Folk Songs of Canada", "More Folk Songs of Canada",
Robert F. Jones
Damien Jordan (Calgary)
Jacobus Kloppers (Edmonton)
Gary Kulesha
Larysa Kuzmenko CD-"A Canadian in Prague"
Leonard Leacock
Daniel Leduc
Brent Lee (Calgary)
Hope Lee (Calgary) CD-"E-Motion"
Alexina Louie CD-"Virtuoso Piano Music of Our Time", "Canadian Music for Piano"
Andrew MacDonald
Alasdair MacLean
Sir Ernest MacMillan
Bruce Mather
Michael Matthews
Diana McIntosh (CDs, including "Another Byte of McIntosh")
Pierre Mercure
Elma Miller
Oskar Morawetz
Marjan Mozetich
Linda Niamath
Cha Ka Nin (Toronto)
Isabelle Panneton (Montreal) CD-"Nouvelle Musique Montrealaise"
Jean Papineau-Couture
David Parsons
Alex Pauk
Marie Pelletier
Barbara Pentland
Clermont Pepin
Alain Perron (Prix du Festival de la nouvelle Musique de Winnipeg)
Randolph Peters (Winnipeg)
Clifford Poole
Allan Rae
Imant Raminsh (beautiful Choral music!)
Elizabeth Raum
John Rea
Sylvia Rickard
Godfrey Ridout
Sid Robinovitch
Nicole Rodrigue (CD-"Alchimie")
Micheline Roi
James Rolfe
Robert J. Rosen (Edmonton/Canmore)
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
R. Murray Schafer (Published, numerous CDs)
Walter Scholtes (Kitchener, ON)
Claude Schryer (CD)
Fred Schipizky (Vancouver)
David Scott (Vancouver) CD
Jana Skarecky (CD-"Spinners of Starlight")
Linda Catlin Smith (CD- "Canadian Music for Piano")
Harry Somers
Ann Southam ( Published, CDs-"Spinners of Starlight", "Virtuoso Piano Music of Our Time", "Canadian Music for Piano")
Roberta Stephen (Calgary)
Nancy Telfer (CD-"Spinners of Starlight", Published)
Alain Thibault
Gilles Tremblay
Barry Truax
Ruth Watson-Henderson (CDs-"Dandelion Parachutes", "British and Canadian Organ Works")
Carol Ann Weaver (Waterloo)
John Weinzweig
Healy Willan
Gerhard Wuensch
Jean Anderson Wuensch (London, ON?)

Classical Performers

Robert Aitkin
Liona Boyd
Canadian Brass
Chor Leone
Da Camera Singers
Elektra
Elmer Isler
Maureen Forester
Glenn Gould
Moshe Hammer
Ofra Harnoy
Ben Heppner
Jeff Hyslop
Leonard Isaacs
Julia Kang
Michael Kim
John Kimura-Parker
Norbert Kraft
Sir Ernest MacMillan
Piano Six
Orford Quartet
Gloria Saarinen
Julia Shaw
Bonnie Silver
St. Lawrence Quartet
Maria Stratas
Jan Vickers

Special thanks to all the people who helped me to develop this ever-expanding list:

Anne Rodger - Calgary Board of Education (CBE)
Alex Rodger - CBE
John Reid - Canadian Music Centre
Les Siemieniuk - CBC
Joan Bell - Teacher
Robin Tufts - Freelance musician, member of Seanachie
The Bell Family - Canadian music fans
Marilyn Perkins - Choral Director
David R. Wilson - Choral Director
Members of canmus-l discussion group on the INTERNET

N.B. All typing errors are my own. Many more Canadian musicians and composers could be added to the list...it keeps growing! For Canadian Music and Musicians from 2000 to the present, have a look at Canadian Musician magazine.

Children's Performers

Jazz, Blues, World Music

Classical ("Serious" & not-so-serious) Composers

Classical Performers

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